Hide Article Text (OCR)
*» ' . •» *'•»*. »• •- »•» lt;•; V lt;r;'IOWA PARK, Aug. 16. (Spe-TtYie e x t'cmEUi al co-cTIaTr rncn Werecia!)—General progress and plans of the forthcoming.—’Texas-Okla-homn Fair to be held Sept.—22-27appointed this year to assist in division chairmen.New washing facilities, holding; were diseased vhy department I pcns amj show rinR ore now un-ichairmen in a meeting here fjcr construction and scales for!Thursday night. Dr. Gordon G.weighing the contestants animalsIClark, association president, pre- are being installed, Porter told!fddcd. j the group.J. C. Porter of Wichita Falls,' junior livestock show chairman, promised one of. the finest - swineshows to be found anywhere with u. , t *nit by dry weather he expects an:Fred Parkey, agriculture de-j partment chairman, stated that; even though crops have been hard!than last year. In all probability it will be necessary for swine to be sifted in order to have enough space for them to show, he said.Oklahoma Exhibits A large number of beef calves from Four-H Club and FFA boys;riculturc exhibits, especially from? irrigated land. Irrigated land cropj exhibits, including feed .crops i should be much better and larger? in number than last year. . ' jMrs. Homer Blalock and Mrs.:in Oklahoma will increase the beef calf,.show this year, and the sheep division is due to be twice as large in 3051.Sam H. Hill, co-chairmen of the women’s department, reported sat- j isfactory progress, with ail exhibit j space in the building filled. Most!Each of thu four divisions of! of *he judges have been selected the department has enlarged to in the department. Prospective cx-f/•** Clitermt:n-m-fa-iu-hymdlayOil22,ageoldnvslichageALTCQ-ATHERY. France (^—Rescue workers today began the sad task of hauling the broken body of a young French underground explorer from the 1,000-foot deep Pyrenees mountain cave in which he fell to his death.The victim, 35-year-old Marcel Loubcns, died last -night as a death - defying rescue team was about to try hoisting him by cable from a ledge where he had lain in a coma nearly 30 hours.Dr. Andrew Mairey, a fellow explorer of the earth’s depths, had been lowered into the fissure — one of the world's deepest — to try to brihg the unconscious man to the surface.Working desperately on the narrow shelf in the dark wet hole, Mairey managed to strap Loubcns to a stretcher. But the explorer died shortly afterwards from his Injuries arid the bitter cold.Loubcns had hurtled 120 feet to the ledge in the Pierre St. Martin fissure when a steel cable hauling him to the surface snapped Wednesday morning. He was badly battered and his spine was fractured.Dr. Mairey, himself a survivor of n cave battle with death, went down a fifth of a mile below the earth’s surface with the stretcher strapped on his back to make the vain rescue attempt. It took 2lbhibitors are being notified of new listings and the advance in deadline time from G o’clock on Monday afternoon to 6 p.in. on Saturday, Sept. 20. / 'Horse Shows Much interest is indicated in both the quarter horse and Palomino shows, with Charles E. King of Wichita Falls as chairman. An exceptionally large /number of. top animals’ are expected to be entered in both the halter and performance classes of both breeds.H. E. Lewis, Wichita, Falls, industrial committee chairman, reported more space had already been contracted for than when the fair opened kjst year. Only a few spaces are left inside the industrial building and the increased outside space.C. E. Bilk, chairman of the merchant’s committee, said the ] few exhibit spaces left in the! merchant’s building will likely be'taken within the next week.Larger Midway Fair Manager Ted Overbey told the group that more concession space on the independent midway already has been contracted for than on opening date of the 1951 fair. Some new, booths are to be j built by organizations before fair I week, Overbey said.Several department heads were not present at the Thursday evening meeting to make reports, however, the oyer-all picture of the 24th annual Tcxas-Oklahoma Fair appears to be increased exhibits in every department? and expansion in educational displays and entertainment features.i'ji; -n»WrivmvN.—nrr*'if70.o ♦ ♦c' 11 liUfu'l liNo. 11604 MONROENo. 2 2308ROOKNo. 3 Store3400 HOLLIDAY(Known xxs Norriss Bros.)’Specials Good Friday and Saturday
Newspaper Details
Wichita Daily Times
Wichita Falls, Texas, US
Fri, Aug 15, 1952
Page 4
Full Page
Clipped by
Wichita F.
TX, USA 03 May 2022
Other Publications Near Wichita Falls, Texas
Wichita Falls Times Record News
Wichita Falls Times
Wichita Oil Reporter
Times Record News
Wichita Weekly Times
